There are excerpts from Arlington Police Department’s log from Monday, Aug. 19, to Wednesday, Aug. 21. The log is public record and available for review. All persons are presumed innocent unless found guilty in a court of law.

There are excerpts from Arlington Police Department’s log from Monday, Aug. 19, to Wednesday, Aug. 21. The log is public record and available for review. All persons are presumed innocent unless found guilty in a court of law.

Monday, Aug. 19

At 11:34 a.m. police responded to a report of a suspicious situation on Bailey Road. A resident of the road said he was unloading his car when a man drove up in a gray Jeep Cherokee, and then took a photo of him. He then asked the resident for his name and address, which the resident refused to provide. The resident asked the motorist for his name, but the motorist refused and drove off. An officer had stopped the same car and driver earlier that morning, and given him a written warning for a red light violation. Phone calls were placed to the man, whose registration showed he lives in Boston’s Charlestown section of Boston. The officer had not received a call back.

At 11:35 a.m. police responded to a Hamlet Street address to take possession of a gun that was found when a family was cleaning out the home of a deceased relative. The gun was found in metal lockbox, and police took possession of the gun until the family decides what should be done with it.

At 1:49 p.m. police responded to a motor vehicle accident at Prospect Avenue and Wachusett Street. A motorist driving a VW Jetta was heading southbound on Wachusett Street when another motorist driving a 2005 Toyota heading eastbound on Prospect Avenue did not stop for the stop sign. There were no injuries.

At 5:05 p.m. police responded to a report of a past hit-and-run accident on Appleton Street. The car owner said she had left her car parked on Appleton Street at 6 a.m., and when she returned to her car she found her driver’s side mirror ripped off and on the ground.

At 10:51 p.m. police responded to a report of a domestic situation at a Marathon Street address where they saw a gray Land Rover SUV with Maryland plates leaving the scene. They stopped the car and the woman driving said she had driven up to Arlington to retrieve some of her father’s belongings after his death. The widow told police that her husband’s daughter and granddaughters were visiting with her after his death, but when she returned home after an errand, she found a dresser drawer pulled out. An argument ensued and the widow called police, although she said she could not be sure if anything was missing. The daughter said she would be leaving and would not be returning.

Tuesday, Aug. 20

At 7:56 a.m. police responded to a report of a stolen motorcycle on Park Avenue Extension. A man told them he parked his 2001Kawasaki Vulcan motorcycle in his driveway at 8 p.m. Monday, and when he exited his home in the morning the motorcycle was gone. He said he had no suspects in mind.

At 8:44 a.m. police responded to report of a vehicle break-in on Howard Street. A man told them he parked his car in front of his house at 10 p.m. on Monday, and when he went to it that morning, his GPS device was missing.

At 9:20 a.m. police responded to Mass. Ave. in front of Town Hall for a pedestrian struck by a motor vehicle. Police found a man, 93, lying in the crosswalk on his side, and a black Toyota Sequoia parked in the passing lane. The motorist told police that the driver was traveling at about 20 mph, looked away for a second and struck the pedestrian. Witnesses said she was traveling at about 20 mph when she hit him. The man was taken to Lahey Clinic and the driver was cited for failure to stop for a pedestrian. The vehicle was towed from the scene. His condition was not immediately available.

At 11:33 a.m. police responded to a report of malicious destruction of a motor vehicle on Tanager Street where a man told them he parked his car at 11 p.m. Monday. When he came out that morning, his 2006 Lexus ES sedan had what looked to be key scratches on his driver’s side front and rear doors.

At 1:58 p.m. police on patrol observed a gray BMW headed the wrong way on the access road to Route 2, and pulled the driver over. The motorist gave police his license and registration, and the registration came back to another car. The man said his wife had just bought the car from a dealership several days ago, and they had told her they would do the registration for her. He also told police he was traveling the wrong way on the road due to his unfamiliarity with the area and the directions provided by his GPS device. He was cited for a license plate number violation. The car was towed from the scene.

Wednesday, Aug. 21

At 6:15 p.m. police responded along with the Arlington Fire Dept. to a Menotomy Road home, where the back porch was burning. A man was sleeping on the back porch of his family’s home, and he left two candles burning when he went to sleep. At some point he knocked them over and they began to burn his blanket. The man extinguished it with a garden house, but firefighters made sure it was out. It was determined to be an accidental fire.

At 8:55 a.m. police responded to a motor vehicle accident on Water Street. A woman driving a green Honda CRV told police she was turning into the access road for a town parking lot off Water Street when she struck a stone wall as she was trying to avoid an oncoming vehicle. No other vehicles were involved, she was not injured and there was minor damage to her vehicle.

At 9:03 a.m. police responded to a motor vehicle at Summer and Brattle streets. Three cars were involved. Two cars were sitting, one behind the other at the Summer Street traffic light, headed east. A third car came up behind them and struck the second car in line, which pushed it into the first car. No one was injured. The driver who struck the second car from the rear said he was at fault, and he did not have enough time to stop.

At 4:16 p.m. police responded to a report of a break-in to a Sunset Road home, where a woman told them that when she came home from work, she found her front door had been forced open, and the doorframe was splintered. Her three upstairs bedrooms had obviously been searched, and she determined that some jewelry, an Apple laptop, an unknown amount of prescription medication, a video game system and an iPod were missing. Most of her neighbors had not seen anything unusual, except one who comes home in the afternoon to walk her dog, and saw two men sitting in a white box truck. She said the men gave her a funny look as she entered her home to get her dog, but they were no longer in the truck when she exited with her dog. When she came back from her walk, the truck was no longer there. The larceny remains under investigation.

At 4:51 p.m. police responded to a motor vehicle accident at Franklin and Warren streets. One vehicle was traveling at about 25 mph on Warren Street and was struck by another vehicle as he passed Franklin Street. The second driver, traveling on Franklin Street, said he stopped at the stop sign, looked both ways, saw nothing and began crossing Warren Street, striking the first car.

At 5:06 p.m. police responded to a report of a domestic situation at a Harris Circle residence. A woman told them she had just broken up with her boyfriend, and he was sending her text messages on her cell phone, saying he would “ruin her life.” She told police that he had photos of her in the nude, and was threatening to post them online. Her email and Facebook accounts had also been hacked, and she suspected he had done it because he works with computers. He has never been violent with her, but she is worried he will post the photos online. Police spoke with the ex-boyfriend who told them there are already photos of her in the nude up on the Internet, which he did not post. He also said that he had just broken up with her because he had discovered emails between her and another man. He said he had no intentions of posting the photos and he wanted nothing more to do with her.

At 6:34 p.m. police responded to a domestic situation at an apartment on Old Colony Lane. A woman told police that her son had been staying with her for a few weeks as he waited to go to a halfway house. She no longer wanted her son staying with her and he had tried to gain entry through locked windows. Police did not find him in the area. She was told to call them again if he returns, and they would tell him that he is no longer welcome at the home. They also told her that she could pursue a restraining order against him.

At 6:57 p.m. police responded to a report of receiving annoying telephone calls at a Frost Street address. A woman told police that she had been receiving telephone calls from a blocked number for weeks, and finally answered a call to find it was her uncle’s girlfriend. The girlfriend wanted to know why the Frost Street woman didn’t like her. No one in the family wants anything to do with the uncle or her girlfriend, as they hound family members for money. The woman wanted it noted in case there are future issues.

At 11:13 p.m. police responded to a report of motor vehicle accident on Ridge Street, where a motorist said she was turning from Overlook Road onto Ridge Street, where she saw a pedestrian. While watching the pedestrian, she struck the curb and then a parked car in a driveway. She was not injured and there was only minor damage to the cars.

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